Ukraine opens official account on Facebook

Ukraine has been assigned fb.com/Ukraine name on Facebook. Thus it is now officially present on the world's largest social network.

Its target audience includes foreigners interested to learn about Ukraine.

At the moment, there are four posts in Ukrainian and English. It was liked by over 1,500 and liked by 1,700 users.

Ukraine opened its official English-language account on Twitter on 2 June. It is marked as verified by Twitter. The official account on Instagram followed in November.

According to Watcher.com.ua, all three accounts are maintained by the SMM team of the presidential administration. Earlier, fb.com/Ukraine was registered with a different user who agreed to hand it over following negotiations.

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